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One of the world's largest polluters has signed onto the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
India, one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, has ratified the Paris global climate agreement. Under the deal, India has committed to ensuring that at least 40% of its electricity will be generated from non-fossil sources by 2030.
[...] The Paris deal is the world's first comprehensive climate agreement. It will only come into force legally after it is ratified by at least 55 countries which between them produce at least 55% of global carbon emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced last month that India would ratify the agreement on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the struggle for independence from Britain.
Also at the UN News Centre, NPR, and DW.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 04 2016, @02:10PM
Here is the thing. Oil has been burned in industrialization of early nation-states. The whole middle east has been destabilized to achieve that. But now rest of the world is catching up to the idea of nation-state and the idea of nationalization, we need to establish another metric of betterment. We have "burned oil" to invent Tesla. Now we need to ban old cars and make others agree to our 'agreement' otherwise we will keep destabilizing.